This apple pie, you will notice, has a lot less sugar than most recipes call for. I spent many pie making sessions to find the lowest sugar I could add. This is th delicious result.

Ingredients
6 cups of sliced apples, any type
1/3 cup of regular sugar
1 tablespoon butter/margarine
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 9-inch pie crusts (can be store bought)

Method
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.

Mix sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg together.

In one of the pie crusts, arrange the sliced apples in layers. Between each layer sprinkle a bit of the sugar mixture.

When done with layering the apples and sugar, cut up the butter into pieces and dot on top.

Cover entire mixture with the second pie crust. Pierce crust randomly with a fork to let steam escape. I usually make little designs.

Bake for 10 minutes then reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Bake for 30 - 35 more minutes.

Notes
Good hot or cold.
Yummy served hot with ice cream.
Can be covered with foil and frozen for a week.
Tarter apples may need more sugar.

What is your fav pie?

I just wanted to take a moment to wish all of Frugally Fabuloso's
readers, Twitter followers, and Facebook fans a very Merry Christmas.

May Santa be generous and the food be delicious. May your family get
along and arguments be non-existent. And, finally, may you all be
healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is no different than any other game that has been released by Ubisoft in the last year or so.

Well, aside from being an amazing gaming franchise that is to say. What makes the game have some 'sameness' is the introduction of the Ghost Recon Network. Affectionately called GRN.

GRN is similar to the Call of Duty Elite application/community. GRN is free and very easy to access. You simply load up the game Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and connect to your Uplay account. Uplay is free.

But, GRN does not get you free in-game stuff. Nope. For that you will need to play the Facebook game, Ghost Recon: Commander. The game is free to play and will also happily accept your money to buy extras as all Facebook games do.

As the companion game to Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, playing Commander will unlock items, experience bonuses, an d currency.

Of course, playing Future Soldier will unlock the same things in your Commander game. Nifty!

With the GRN available on the Web, Android devices, and Apple devices, is there a reason you aren't fully controlling your Ghost Recon: Soldier game?

With Microsoft's Xbox 360 the latest console (and last) to jump on the motion fitness bandwagon I got to thinking. Fitness and video gaming. Really until a few years ago this did not mi itness people were on one side of the fence while video gamers were on the other side of the fence. For the most part.

But, do I really need to spend nearly $200 just to stay fit? Ha I say! How can I be frugal and spend $200 on, yet another, piece of exercise equipment? Nope. Not going to happen on my end. Not when I already have my Xbox 360 and plenty of games that I actually love to play.

Yet, I can remain healthy and be a devotee to the video game industry. How you ask? Simple! Think of the stereotypical coach of any sports team. Got the image? Yep, a fat man yelling at the minor inadequacies of others in order to cover his major innadequacies. That aside, this image also brings to mind the "punishment for failing to reach excellence".

How does all this relate to video gaming? Simple. Let me explain. Bear with me as all will become clear very soon.

I am a devote 1st person shooter gamer. I run and gun. I shoot first, ask questions later. Afterall, all is fair in love and war. And this sure isn't love. ;)

What I have incorporated into my video game lifestyle is to impose the aforementioned stereotyped coach's mentality upon myself. That is to say, for every match I play that my team does not win I do some exercises. Granted the time period between matches is about 30 seconds. But do you realize you can do at least 5 crunches in 30 seconds?

As well as that, if my KDR (Kill Death Ratio) for that game is off-balanced, I further enforce this punishment for lack of excellence. Once again, did you realize jumping jacks can be quickly done in 30 seconds.

What is the point of all this? Simple. I no longer have to make time for exercising on days I am not playing well or my team is not playing well. I do game about 4-8 hours a day afterall. Matches are typically 10 minutes long. You do the math.

So what about days you are unstoppable you ask me? Simple. I make the time to work out. InDemand has a TON of free and great exercise programs. 10 minutes of this, 10 minutes of that. Presto! I have my work-out. All without spending more money.

While this is the method I have adopted in my video game lifestyle, this logic and method can be applied to other lifestyles. Use your imagination.

I hope you have enjoyed another way to stay healthy, frugal and fabuloso!

This week is all about Serious Sam for you fans.

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All the Serious Sam items on sale are rated M for Mature.

Go here to see it all and/or put stuff in your queue.

As for freebies, there is one for USA/N. America members. On your dashboard, find the State Farm ad. Click it and then go to 'Play Karaoke'. Opt into the contest. Then click the 'Congratulations' and you will be able to download a free tshirt for your Avatar.

Frugally Fabuloso's Facebook Fan of the Week is

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